Hello World!

(.. I had to start with this, because I’m a computer scientist, you know.. haha..ha..ohw.. for those who don't know: everytime you learn a new computer language, you start with a "hello world program" - it just prints out "hello world".)

I’m Larissa, 21 years old, living in germany (in a small town, about 50 kilometres away from Hamburg). I’m traveling to hamburg everyday by train, to study (can’t afford to live there, as I don’t earn any money yet). My course of studies is called „human computer interaction“ – I’m having about 50% computer science courses and 50% psychology courses (we are the only ones, besides the real psychologists of course, who are permitted to take that psychology lessons without having to write the best of all possible grades just to be allowed to hear that stuff, lol).

It’s really a huge change when I hang up with other computer science students compared to other psychology students.. like living in different worlds.. whenever someone says something like „it doesn’t matter what you work/study“ to me, I always have that big „YOU KNOW NOTHING“ in my head.. just kidding, it’s not THAT hard, but you really notice it.

Before I went to study, I worked at a social instituition one year (a „voluntarily social year“, don’t know if something like that exists in other countrys?). I had the opportunity to talk to very differend "kinds" of people, like homeless people, people with mental or physic disorders, alcoholics, travelers, children, teenagers, drug takers.. It was really eye-opening and I’ve learned so much about humans! But in the end, I’m still a tech girl, though. 😉

So I decided to mix these things. As I mentioned „tech girl“ – have you seen this picture of me?

(ok, it's more gaming-related than really "tech stuff", but somehow.. and somebody wrote that it's better so resize the image to nearly 800x450 because of the thumbnail - that's why it's soooo small now. Hope you can read what I've written even though.)

It seems that you like to know that the person whose stuff you’re reading is real – so here I am! I decided to make the picture in front of the door of my room; so you can see some things I like.. that hand-signed „monster hunter 4 ultimate“ poster (a game where you can battle huuuge monsters and build stuff with their drops and have a loot of fun with your friends, played it like a maniac), some chocobo-cards (cute little yellow birds from „final fantasy“, one of the best rpgs that I know) and lightning, a character from the same videogame.

I gathered lots of handhelds, one console and a strong PC with a oculus rift for awesome VR stuff.

I also started to build some stuff on my own, but I’m still learning and getting help from an awesome friend. For example, I have that chip (called esp-32), connected with some copper cables and put it on the top of my bathoom-door, so I can get a notification on my smartphone, everytime someone uses the bathroom (background story: I „live“ in the upper floor, the toilet is on the down floor, and my parents are using it like 90% of the time EXACTLY at that moment that I went all that stairs down to use it… so I decided that I have to know whether it’s occupied or not BEFORE going down). For christmas I got that awesome self-made icosahedron with glowing rgbs at each edge, all programmable. So my next step is to connect the toilet bot with the ico, so that I don’t even have to look on my phone anymore, but see the yellow (because red is too obviously, I like things that are different) light when it’s occupied.

Anyway, I’m a very happy person. Not that loud, annoying, always laughing-type that cries when being alone, much more a „found my inner chill“-person, seeing most of the things as calm as I could. I’m more a silent thinker than a never-want-to-stop-talking girl – because otherwise I wouldn’t have time to notice all the beautiful little things in the world. I think I will blog some of those moments, because shared joy is double joy 😊

A last attitude I don’t want to hide is, that I’m always seeking for the things that I don’t understand or aren’t easily be able to.. For example, I did that social year even though I’m (better: I was! The year luckily changed very much for me!) very shy, I started learning the guitar (years ago, meanwhile I got a acoustic guitar, electric guitar and a cute little ukulele) even though I’m really not musically gifted (I still suck, lol, cause I stopped practicing as I have so much lesser time since I’m studying – because I want to make everything whole-hearted), I’ve had a speak-(and write)-disability when I was a little child, so me and my mother practiced everyday, and now I’m always writing perfectly correct (in german, of course :D still learning english as my second language, got french as a third). Persons with this kind of attitude are called „incremental theorists“. Persons who always want to learn something, instead of proving that that already have a skill in something. The opposite is called „entity theorists“, persons who think that intelligence is’nt flexible and if they aren’t good in something, they will never be able to learn this (thought I could let that psychological knowledge hang out a bit, sometimes it's good to know that there are already words for something you would otherwise just describe)

Who brought me to steemit?

Around christmas, my brother started to do some research about all this crypto currency stuff, because my mother was really hyped to spend some euros into that one altcoin.. Sometimes he told me some things about it, and one day he mentioned steemit. The concept really sounds good to me, so I decided to gather more information – since then, I’m always reading interesting stuff here. More than I’ve ever found on facebook or some newspapers, I really love it 😊

Seeing your reactions to all that posts encourages me, that maybe some things of my life could be interesting for some of you, too! I don’t want to be an ever-silent reader anymore! So here I am, explaining what it is, „being like me“. It’s my first post ever, I’ve never blogged anything or something (expect like posting.. about 3? pictures a year on facebook :D)

Explaining „underpants“

At last, anybody wondered why I’ve chosen the name „underpants“? It’s quite.. „unsuitable“ for more or less serious things like this, huh? The name has a little story. I don’t know if it’s necessery or worth to mention it, but I feel like I want to.. One day, I wanted to sign up for a computer science related website. But my very-well liked, previously used username was already taken.. Normally, there is always that „attention! Your username will be visible for everyone, so don’t pick a name that reveals anything personal!“. This time, there wasn’t. Alright, I thought. If it’ts just my name for logging into the page, it’s all the same. Childish as I am, the first word that came into my mind was ..yeah, Penis.

After signing up, I realized that this name was the name that everybody could see! Oh dear!

Hurry up, think of something else.. is there anything else, that isn’t quite as unprofessional and maybe even embarassing? P..ants! Yeah. Pants it is. But.. it’s such a usual word. It has to be something unique.. Clever me, let’s change the name to „UniquePants“! There it was, a freshly pecked, not used by anyone else, username. Somehow I liked it, but somehow I thought „if I’m blogging about life and thougths, why the fuck should I have a name that is in nooo waay related to the content?“

Think about something else.. Come on…

Okay, fuck of. It doesn’t have to be related to the content. It doesn’t have to be something deeply meaningful. And there’s only one thing in life for me, that is more important than everything else: spell some magically smiles or at least a little grin on other people faces.

Underpants are funny. ..aren’t they?

I hope I can share some of my spirit and will be able to hear lots of things from you, so we can grow on each other 😊

Thanks for reading!

thedende